After Lu Jing rescued Yinglian, he took her back to Yangzhou and told Zhen Yinglian about her background.

Yinglian was five years old when she was abducted, and she vaguely remembered the situation at home, and after the verification of the two phases, it was also confirmed that Zhen Shiyin and Feng were her parents, and she then resumed her original name.

Lu Jing immediately sent someone to find Yinglian's family, and after many inquiries, he learned that Yinglian's father, Zhen Shiyin, ran away from home with a monk in the second year of Yinglian's loss, and Yinglian's mother Feng also died in the third year after Zhen Shiyin ran away from home.

Yinglian was only a teenager at the time, and she finally got rid of the devil's grasp, but when she heard the news that her relatives were scattered and gone, she was grief-stricken and sad for a while.

Lu Jing personally accompanied Zhen Yinglian back to Gusu and helped her worship the Feng family, and then told Yinglian about the Feng family and asked her if she was willing to return to the Feng family.

After Yinglian learned how her grandfather's family treated her mother, she said that she didn't want to return to the Feng family, but voluntarily sold herself into the Lu Mansion and became a maid by Lu Jing's side.

Generally, the maid needs to be separated from her past identity when she sells herself into the house, and her original name can no longer be used, and the first step for the maid to enter the house is that the host's family wants to give her a new name to declare sovereignty.

However, Lu Jing took pity on Yinglian's life experience and did not treat her as an ordinary maid, and he felt that Yinglian's name was already very good, so he did not change her name.

Although Zhen Yinglian has the meaning of true pity, but also has the meaning of true Yinglian, the essence of Yingnai flower, there is a saying that Yingzui Hua, and the lotus is noble, there is the reputation of the gentleman in the flower, and the word Yinglian refers to the beautiful lotus.

As for why Yinglian's name was not changed to Xiangling, it was because he felt that the word Xiangling had a negative fateful implication.

Although both water chestnuts and lotus are born in water, the rhizome of the lotus grows into a lotus root rooted in the mud, and the stem stretches out of the water surface to open into a lotus flower, and the flower can produce lotus seeds, which means beauty.

Although the water rhombus is also an aquatic plant, it is not rooted in the mud, and the leaves float on the water, fluctuating, giving people a sense of loneliness and wandering, implying the ups and downs of life.

Lu Jing arranged Yinglian in the study, and didn't let her do any work, she taught her to read and write in her spare time, and she read the books in the study.

"Yinglian has been very happy with the young master all these years, it is the happiest day Yinglian has ever had since she can remember!" Yinglian sat next to Lu Jing and replied seriously.

In the past three years, she has followed Lu Jing and is also familiar with Lu Jing's character, although Lu Jing acts majesticly, but he is very good to her, not only teaching her to read and write, but also teaching her poetry and songs.

She has always been grateful to Lu Jing for rescuing her from the sea of suffering, telling her her life experience, and teaching her a lot of things, so Yinglian secretly vowed in her heart to repay Lu Jing well for the rest of her life.

Lu Jing nodded and said, "It's good that you can be happy, if there is anything unsatisfactory, remember to tell me, and I will solve it for you." ”

"There's nothing unsatisfactory, the people in the house are very good to Yinglian." Yinglian said gratefully.

Since she entered the Lu Mansion for a few months, she has regarded this place as her home, thinking that as long as she can accompany the young master, she is willing to live any kind of life.

"That's good, by the way, do you believe in fate?" Lu Jing continued to ask.

Although Zhen Yinglian's fate changed because of his forcible intervention, it did not cause any butterfly effect, I don't know if it was the world's corrective force or what the reason was.

As far as he knew, when Xue Pan set off for Beijing two years ago, he was still involved in a life lawsuit because he was fighting for a woman, and the person who was killed was still Feng Yuan, and it was also settled by Jia Yucun, who was the prefect of Yingtianfu at the time.

This had to make him feel the magic of fate, without Yinglian, the fate of Feng Yuan and Xue Pan was still inevitably entangled, and the plot was exactly the same.

This incident also made him full of curiosity about this world, I don't know if there really exists too illusory realm, there is really a police illusion fairy girl, and whether the piece of psychic jade is really transformed by Nuwa's mending heavenly stone, and whether the twelve hairpins of Jinling are also as written in the book, all of them are destined to be fateful people.

It's just that he has been looking for leper monks and lame Taoists all these years, but he has not found any trace of the two, and even Zhen Shiyin has disappeared without a trace.

And he has been searching for strange things all these years, and he has not found any supernatural things, and he can't figure it out, so he can only bury this doubt in the bottom of his heart, waiting for the day when he meets a leper monk and a lame Taoist, he must ask what kind of world this world is.

In any case, he has changed Yinglian's fate, but I don't know if his move has attracted the attention of the leper monk and the lame Taoist.

Ying Lian was stunned for a moment, she didn't know how to answer this question, she had never thought about any fate, and after being stunned for a moment, Ying Lian shook her head blankly and said, "I don't know either!" ”

She didn't know that if it weren't for Lu Jing's intervention, she would probably be robbed by Xue Pan, and after Xue Pan married Xia Jingui, she would be tortured to death, but now it was another woman who bore her original fate for her.

"Forget it, don't talk about this, you can go back to your room and rest, you don't have to stay here with me!" Lu Jing shook his head, and no longer discussed any topics about fate with Yinglian, but he was thinking about what the fate of the Lu family would be in the future.

"Well, young master!" Yinglian said in a rather depressed mood.

She knew that the young master was worried about the old master's condition these days, but she didn't know how to comfort the young master, Yinglian secretly hated herself in her heart for being useless, the young master was so good to her, but she couldn't help the young master with anything.

Yinglian silently put this concern in her heart, slowly withdrew from the study, and stood quietly outside the door, but her eyes were full of worry and looked at the figure reflected in the candlelight, and she was sad for a while.

At the first moment of the third day of October, Lu Jing was at the gate of the city and received the second uncle Lu Jun's family who came from Huai'an Mansion.

Lu Jun was the prefect of Huai'an Mansion from Sipin, and when Lu Yu and Lu Jun brothers were not separated, Lu Jun had always cared for and cared for Lu Jing, so Lu Jing was quite close to this second uncle.

This time, the second uncle Lu Jun came with his wife Mrs. Guo, the eldest son Lu Ke, the second son Lu Lin, the eldest daughter Lu Zhili and a group of servants.

Lu Jun's eldest son Lu Ke is fifteen years old this year, has passed the hospital examination, is a showman, the eldest daughter is eleven years old, and the second son Lu Lin is now eight years old and is studying in primary school, learning four books.

"Second uncle, second aunt has worked hard all the way, and my nephew has asked my subordinates to prepare hot water, so it's better to wash up first." Lu Jing proposed after welcoming Lu Jun's family into the house.

"It's good!" Lu Jun did not refuse, since he received Lu Yu's letter, he quickly arranged many matters in Huai'an Mansion, and hurriedly set off with his family, driving all the way in a hurry, and the family was a little tired.

Lu Jing continued: "Okay, my nephew will let people prepare a dinner party immediately, and the second uncle will talk to my father in detail after the banquet!" ”

An hour later, Lu Jun's family cleaned up, and the Lu Mansion also held a banquet, and everyone sat at separate tables.

Mrs. Guo took Lu Zhili, Lu Zhiyu, Aunt Jiang, and Aunt Bai to a table.

Lu Yu, Lu Jun, Lu Jing, Lu Ke, and Lu Lin sat at a table.

After the meal, Lu Yu first asked Aunt Jiang to take Lu Zhili, Lu Zhiyu and others to retreat and rest, and then said to Lu Jing: "Jing'er, you take Ke'er and Lin'er to the wing room to settle down, I have something to talk about with your second uncle." ”

"Yes, Father!" Lu Jing took the order and left.

After everyone left, Lu Jun followed Lu Yu to his room.

After the two sat down, Lu Jun asked impatiently: "Big brother, how can you let Jing'er worship Lin Ruhai as a teacher, don't you know that Lin Ruhai is the confidant of the emperor?" ”

Lu Jun didn't like Lin Ruhai, not only because Lin Ruhai was the emperor's henchman, but also because Lin Ruhai didn't like the Lu family because his wife didn't like the Lu family, Lin Ruhai disregarded family affection and broke off the friendship with the Lu family for several generations.

In his opinion, Lin Ruhai's move was extremely unfilial, and his aunt was also thinking about the Lin family's heirs, so Lin Ruhai didn't appreciate it, and even broke off contact with the Lu family because of this.

Lu Yu understood what the second brother meant, hurriedly stopped his words, and explained with a bitter expression: "Second brother, don't worry, I naturally know your worries, but I have no choice but to do this for my brother." ”

Lu Jun's tone slowed down, and then asked, "What's the problem of the eldest brother, who wants to gamble on Jing'er's future?" ”

Lu Yu said helplessly: "Jing'er's performance has been too outstanding in the past few years, and now that she is young and has passed the township test, Jing'er has attracted the attention of the Zhen family." ”

"In addition, our Lu family also has some power in Jiangnan, presumably the Zhen family is also aware of the situation now, and wants to win us over, the Zhen family wrote several times a month ago to urge me, and I want to discuss marriage with Jing'er."

Lu Jun's expression darkened when he heard this, although the Lu family's power has declined since the death of the old man, but now it still has a lot of influence in Huai'an Mansion, Suzhou Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion.

Moreover, the Lu family has never had much friendship with the Zhen family, and if the Zhen family wants to further control Jiangnan, they must win over the Lu family.

After Lu Jun learned the inside story, he also understood the hardships of his eldest brother.

He sighed solemnly: "I see, the eldest brother has postponed the marriage with the Zhen family?" ”

He naturally knew that the Zhen family was powerful, and from the perspective of immediate interests, marrying the Zhen family could indeed bring some help to the Lu family, but in the long run, this move would be extremely worth the loss.

Although the Zhen family now looks rich and prosperous, the situation of the Zhen family is already like a castle in the air, and sooner or later it will collapse one day.

Lu Yu nodded and said: "Yes, yesterday I also tested Jing'er with this matter, and Jing'er did not agree to this marriage. ”

Lu Jun immediately asked, "Does the eldest brother want to take advantage of the Lin family's momentum to delay the army?" ”

Lu Yu saw that the second brother understood what he meant, nodded and said: "Yes, Ruhai is the son-in-law of the Jia family after all, and the Jia family and the Zhen family are in-laws, and now that Jing'er has become Ruhai's disciple, it will not be difficult for Jing'er to come to the Zhen family." ”

Lu Jun frowned tightly and asked puzzledly: "I know that the eldest brother has reunited with the Lin family, and now that he has the name of a relative, why do you have to let Jing'er apprentice?" ”